All Graydon Carter Quotes
- Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate… Arrogance
- People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. Age
- Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very… Champagne
- Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line. Automatically
- Life is all about seating and lighting. All
- We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat… Admire
- After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. All
- As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. Disney
- As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot. Clothes
- Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from - dare I… Charmer
- Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives. Anything Else
- Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse. Bar
- Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. Betting
- History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. Epic
- I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut. All
- I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform. Candidate
- I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in… Cities
- In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint. Age
- It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's… Age
- Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. Access
- Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd… All
- Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. Attribute
- Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life. Absolutely
- My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. American
- Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. Addictive